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Pedro Alves

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
225 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

I would say about 24 out of the 36.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

Yeah, I mean, I think we're still before scale, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

We're not there yet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

We're still trying to figure out the formula, how to sell, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

All the things that you need to understand to figure out what a sales process is like, how long it takes to sell, how to navigate a company to get a close, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

I think we're not there yet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

So we're still not at the point that we want to scale because in order to scale, we need to have the answers to all those questions, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

I talked to a couple companies that do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

I think that there's actually a few other interesting options that I might look at, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

So there's now the potential to do โ€“ it's not a full IPO, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

But there's a new regulation that allows you to raise capital through non-certified investors, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

So โ€“

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

I have a friend that actually did that and successfully raised $50 million, but he did caution me that it is a lot of work and a lot of time spent doing just that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

A lot of legal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

There's family offices, which ends up being the same thing as a VC, but the difference is that they're a little โ€“

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

they're going to be a little more generous.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

I think with the percentages, that's what I've seen in the past.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

I don't think that the speed that we need to grow at is that, that just doesn't, the math doesn't add up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

Yeah, it just, unless we were trying to just coast, which is not what we're trying to do, then we would go that route.